This Is Not a President : Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: My Own Private Presidents 1(24) Organizational Note 23(2) The Mirror of Reproduction: Baudrillard and Reagan's America 25(25) Oliver North and the Lying Nose 50(23) This Is Not a President: Baudrillard, Bush, and Enchanted. Simulation 73(12) Bush, the Man Who Sununu Too Much: Male Trouble and Presidential Subjectivity 85(31) ``Chicks with Dicks'': Transgendering the Presidency 116(30) ``Honey, I Shrunk the President'': Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and the Clinton Presidency 146(24) ``Father, Can't You See I'm Bombing?'' A Bush Family Romance 170(31) Hillary Regained 201(36) Notes 237(56) Index 293(6) About the Author 299